The Bible is clear with regard to roles of men and women. God created them male and female. This is the law of distinction. Men and women have similarities and obvious differences. One obvious distinguishing characteristic is that men are physically stronger than women. God designed it this way. Adam Clarke wrote, "God fitted man by the robust construction of his body to live a public life, to contend with difficulties, and to be capable of great exertions. The structure of woman’s body plainly proves that she was never designed for those exertions required in public life."
Numbers 1:2-3 reads, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by polls; from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel..." Clearly, God has spoken that only males are to go to war. What self-respecting man would want his wife to go to war? What father, who loves his daughter, would want her to go to war? God has given the male the responsibility and the ability to protect the physically weaker sex.
A woman at home is protected from those who would take advantage of her physical weakness. Psalm 113:9 reads, "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord." A woman’s role is to be bring forth life and not to take it in war. To overstate the obvious, men do not get pregnant and have children, women do. Without children being reproduced, there is no future generation.
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